AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America

The Associated Press

Updated 7:00 pm, Sunday, February 21, 2016

Pope Francis wrapped up his first trip to Mexico after he traveled to the southern city of Chiapas to meet with indigenous groups and to the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, where Mexicans of all classes gathered to get a glimpse of him.

Pictures of his visit were some of the best taken last week by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The fight against the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits the Zika virus switched into high gear in Brazil as military personnel went house-to-house to eradicate the insects' breeding grounds.

In Cuba, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill met with the patriarch of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.

Cubans also got news that U.S. President Barack Obama will visit their country next month. It will make him the first sitting American president to visit Havana in the nearly 90 years since Calvin Coolidge went, and the first to travel to the island in seven decades, when Harry Truman stopped by the U.S.-controlled naval station at Guantanamo Bay.

People in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires suffered through blackouts because the city's energy system has been unable to cope with a summer heat wave, prompting some residents to block streets in protest. The government responded by rationing electricity, affecting thousands of homes and businesses in the capital and surrounding towns.

In the Bolivian capital of La Paz, the end of Carnival was marked with the symbolic burial of Chuta, Chola and Pepino, beloved Carnival characters who represent gaiety and never tire of dancing.

Peru's Sporting Cristal clashed with Uruguay's Penarol in Lima during a qualifying match for South American soccer's Copa Libertadores tournament.

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This gallery was curated by photo editor Tomas Stargardter in Mexico City.